# Creating a staged user with an API call

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667 "2018-04-05T19:19:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dm.linov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dm.linov/32/167719_2.png) [@dm.linov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dm.linov)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667/17 "2020-02-26T18:09:33Z")

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> [@](#):
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> > [@dm.linov](#):
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> > There was a indeed a setting that prevented sending post notifications
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> Which setting for anyone following along?

There actually were several.

- `default email level` - default is “only when away”
- `email time window` - default is 10 minutes, so the notification email is not sent immediately
- `disable emails` - default is “no”, but I had it changed before and forgot about it 🤦‍♂️

> [@blake](#):
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> It is designed to work just like email as if the user might not even know they are sending an email into a Discourse forum.

Well, for me the post notification doesn’t really look like a regular email anyway - e.g. it has a link to the post author’s profile at the forum (twice!), but not to the topic.

 ![2020-02-26_21-02-24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0a59f4d37b8570e9839f7174bd50b8ffe6a8d1ef.png)

Besides, I would like to inform the staged user, that he can actually sign in to the forum.  
Is there a way to customize this email template?

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